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Caught in a vice

Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022
Esophageal dysmotility and dysphagia are well known in patients with scleroderma. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) in these patients is an indication for lung transplantation but is considered high risk in many centers. This report is an attempt to highlight how anatomical causes can contribute to dysphagia in such patients and complicate the post ...
Vipin Dulam   +6 more
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Taxing and Regulating Vices* [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019
AbstractWe study the optimal taxation and regulation of sin goods – goods that are enjoyable to consume but also create future negative health consequences – within a setting in which individuals are time‐inconsistent (and thus consume too much), regulation makes the consumption of sin goods less pleasurable, and taxation involves administrative and ...
Immordino, Giovanni   +2 more
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Competitive Vices

Journal of Marketing Research, 2012
In markets, firms must compete following a set of rules determined by laws, regulations, and social practices or pressures. This article investigates the effect of the degree of competition on the extent to which firms invest in behaving according to the rules of the marketplace. The authors model investments in following these rules as increasing the
Branco, Fernando, Villas-Boas, J. Miguel
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Vice interfaces

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2012
While interaction designers often aim to support virtues such as health, creativity and thrift, their design efforts are also implicated in technologies that support greed, lust, and vanity. "Vice" interfaces serve as a way to interrogate critically some of the moral values that lie beneath our design efforts, while also providing an opportunity to ...
Eric Kabisch, Amanda Williams
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Vices and virtues

Journal of Public Health, 2009
Editorial
Leung, GM, Gray, S
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Vice and Illusion: The Psychology of Vice

Philosophy, 1936
It is a pleasure to all of us to hold forth upon subjects about which we know very little. It is particularly a temptation to university professors to get away from the subjects of their own chairs and lecture as dogmatically as their nature demands on subjects of other people's chairs. That is why I am speaking to-night about Psychology.
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VICE: A VIrtual CEll

2005
We report on the specification and analysis of VICE, a hypothetical cell with a genome as basic as possible. We used an enhanced version of the pgr-calculus and a prototype running it to study the behaviour of VICE. The results of our experimentation in silico confirm that our virtual cell ldquosurvivesrdquo in an optimal environment and shows a ...
CHIARUGI D.   +3 more
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Vice-Charging and Epistemic Vices of Consequence

Think
AbstractThis article presents a short account of the practice of vice-charging within the domain of vice epistemology. It briefly examines two pervasive epistemic vices – closed-mindedness and insouciance – and then explores some of the issues surrounding when and how to go about charging others with an epistemic vice.
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